One of the Best Things in Life that has kept me alive post Brain stem stroke in Year 2000 are Patient managed Health Forums for various medical conditions.
Disabled and stuck at home with my dog and TV & Computer and an analogue Nokia Mobile phone I became addicted to my computer.
The Fact that I was lucky to have a computer at home even thought it was a basic Windows based XT Computer and a few search engine were born to help you reach far and wide. Once Google search Engine took over the World was an Oyster
The very first Patient Forum I found on line was the Massuchusetts General's - Neurology Forum. It was Called Brain Talk Communities which covered A to Z of Neurological disorders. The section I was interested in was STROKE,
When I joined it was an extremely popular site with over 56000 members and members of the Stroke sub group were amazing people who welcomed you and were almost like carers as they fully understood the helplessness of Stroke survivors
